A Call
I call on Congress to represent the people. I do not demand impeachment but I do demand that you assume your rightful place as representatives of our power and subject this executive and this judiciary to our collective discontent. Act as you must to ensure that they do not have the power to do any further damage. Then, act as you must to correct the damage done to date by this administration. The will of the people was clear in two executive elections where the current executive did not garner a majority of the vote from We the People yet they act as though they have the full force of history, the full backing of the people, and the full support within the Constitution. Clearly, We the People have reached different conclusions and on these you, as our true representatives, must act. Within this action, you will be supported by the power behind you whether on the street, or in the media, or in our hearts, or even by those who claim ownership of the truths inherent in the US Constitution whether or not they carry the citizenship. Let us be your guide, as is necessary in a democracy if you wish to prove that we still are a democracy. If you cannot, we will enforce ourselves the will of the people.
Jefferson, among the other Founding Fathers, said more than a few things of interest for our times which shed some light on where the real power is. It seems that he, and those with whom he corresponded on the meaning behind the Constitution which should be a good guide for anyone still interested in what America means, believed that the Constitution was set up to protect the rights of the smallest to the biggest, in order of importance. In other words, there was a distinct distrust among the Founders of forms of inheritance: wealth (even though a number of them were of this group) or power. They trusted in the will of the people above any elected officials and, in this light, they clearly favored the power of the people's proxies over the power of judges and executives.
It is with this thought that I propose to Congress the assumption of your rightful power under the ideas embedded in our Constitution that you are the higher power and we are the ultimate power. Bring them under control and do not wait for the next election. The people are with you. Otherwise, we may exercise our ultimate control and we may not wait until the next election.
There are times predicted by our Founding Fathers in their deep knowledge of history where the ballot may not be a strong enough exercise of the people's powers... where the situation is so grave that the true power, We the People, cannot wait it out because of such ruinous prospects with a continued course.
The words of Jefferson, as found here.
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.
"Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment and enjoyment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that... the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood." --Thomas Jefferson to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, 1795. FE 7:13
"The people cannot be all, and always, well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:372, Papers 12:356
"A court has no affections; but those of the people whom they govern influence their decisions, even in the most arbitrary governments." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1785. ME 5:12, Papers 8:228
"Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792.
and one of my favorites
"In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:8